Infinite time stopped beating its heart, and humans burnt away without making any noise.
Not one person notices as the world becomes dislocated and is covered in the flames of Guze.
To walk around at this late an hour.
It saved me the trouble of calling you ~de arimasu.
It will be painful but a moment.
One-hit kill.
Asking for help is meaningless ~de arimasu.
Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter has agreed to your destruction, as well ~de arimasu.
Shana has... Shana has... agreed to...
Yuji.
I see, you seem to be able to control power of existence to some extent ~de arimasuna.
Foolish.
Shana?
So Shana didn't really...
What is this about ~de arimasuka?
You had agreed to destroying the Mistes ~de arimasu.
I would like for you to step aside ~de arimasu.
Now.
Step aside.
Shana...
So you are in disagreement with destroying the Mistes ~de arimasuka?
If we cause the random translocation of the Reiji Maigo, we can avoid a head-on confrontation with Balle Masque ~de arimasu.
Large-scale battles distort the balance of the world.
If you consider that, this is a very effective choice ~de arimasu.
Especially in the case where we don't know how the opponent is going to act...
...and we are in the danger of losing the initiative ~de arimasu.
You should know this ~de arimasu...
...if you are a Flame Haze.
Do you still oppose it ~de arimasuka?
Shana...
What is this feeling?
What's wrong, Hecate?
Seirei-den is quaking.
Yeah, since that old hag Bel-Peol made the Professor tweak so many places...
They're going to activate the blue insignia for real this time.
The blue insignia.
You'll be busy, as well.
You won't be able to pray all the time.
Wish upon me rather than pray, Hecate.
What do you want?
An answer. An answer to what I seek.
What do you seek?
What I should seek.
It's the same no matter how many times you ask.
Basically, she's not seeking anything,
but she shall be sought by everything that lives...
...once the blue insignia activates, that is.
I'm fine with that, but I hope there aren't any effects on Hecate.
Aren't you being importunate, Metamorphosis?
Hecate's going to become eternal...
...with a vast amount of power of existence.
Well, I'll do what I'm here for.
I'll protect my Hecate.
I do not belong to you.
That's a shame.
Hecate, you really are pure; please remain that way.
Soon it'll be ready...
...a jade of power of existence no King of Guze has ever been able to synthesize.
If you do not possess an answer, I would like for you not to stand in my way ~de arimasu.
Destruction.
There's no way Shana can oppose...
...since Shana is a Flame Haze.
Hold, Manipulator of Objects.
We still have business with this Mistes.
And the business is?
I have something I want to ask.
It was saying something regarding the Tomogara this afternoon.
Right! The bird decoration that the Tomogara used!
Shana, that's what you wanted to ask, right?
Y- Yeah, that's right.
You're telling me to cease its destruction for that reason?
We cannot determine its importance until we hear it.
This Mistes occasionally demonstrates good insight.
That's right. It was the same in the last battle, as well.
I think it better for us to hear...
...what Yuji... the Mistes has to say.
"The Mistes has to say", eh?
What a face she makes.
Do you... to that extent?
If you two say you need him, then there must still be a use for that Mistes.
I will postpone its destruction ~de arimasu.
However, only this once.
Approved.
Wilhelmina.
I believe in you ~de arimasu.
I do not want to lose faith in you ~de arimasu.
What I was saying before...
Yeah.
I was wondering if the decorations left in the city are fine.
The decorations that were not used as Rinne yesterday...
Are they really just leftovers?
Are you implying a possible harm in them?
He said he didn't know what that Tomogara came for, right?
If everything isn't over yet, then it's natural for us not to know.
I see; we can't deny the possibility.
It'd be best for us to stay alert.
Yeah, okay.
Was that useful enough of me?
That was...
I know; I'm a Mistes, and you're a Flame Haze, right?
Sakai-kun? Yukari-chan?
Shana, I've finally made my decision.
I'll leave this city.
Yuji!
I thought about it...
...and I can't drag the city and its people into our mess anymore.
That's all I can do to protect everyone.
To protect...
Yeah, I want to protect...
...the city and everyone in it.
The city and everyone in it...
No, not like that.
It's totally different.
I don't want to go with him for that kind of reason.
I'll... I'll leave the city.
It's not like that!
Even if we did leave the city, Balle Masque will come after you.
Other Tomogara might even come after you.
Then we'll move to another place.
We can even fight.
It's impossible!
Why?
It's impossible because it's impossible!
Then you're telling me to stay here?
I didn't say that!
Then what are you...
So you'll be destroying me, after all?
NO!
That is the right choice for a Flame Haze, after all.
No. No, it's not like that!
Then what do you want me to do?
I don't understand what you're thinking, Shana.
Yuji...
Sakai-kun.
Yoshida-san.
Why are you out at this hour?
Khamsin-san gave me this amulet, and because of that...
Right, you felt the Fuzetsu.
Sakai-kun, will you... will you really leave here?
You heard that?
I'm sorry.
Yeah, it's true.
But...
Yoshida-san, it's partially you that helped me make this decision.
You said that I'm human, right?
That's why I came to want to protect what's important to me as Sakai Yuji.
By being able to feel that way... it's proof that I am Sakai Yuji.
But... But...
Thank you, your feelings made me really happy, too.
But I'm sorry; I've already decided.
Sakai-kun...
Good job!
Tanaka? Satou?
Sakai, I'm touched.
You're seriously an amazing guy.
No... And why are you guys here?
Thanks to this, we could see the Fuzetsu.
We thought Ane-san might have come back, but...
I didn't think of that.
I said if it's a Tomogara, we should fight it.
So Margery-san left?
Yeah.
It doesn't matter anymore.
I see; so Margery-san left, as well.
Looks like we have no choice but to agree with Sakai Yuji this time.
To choose whether or not to destroy him... To stay in the city or not...
That's...
If I had not stopped you, you would have pointed your sword at Manipulator of Objects.
Now she has to try to keep faith in you.
What do you want to do with Sakai Yuji?
What do I want...
If not that, then what do you want Sakai Yuji to do for you?
I want Yuji to... Yuji to be...
I don't know.
I don't know at all!
She wants to kill you and translocate the Reiji whatever?
If that happens, finding it again apparently becomes really difficult.
The reason for the army of Tomogara, Balle Masque, to come to Misaki City will also disappear.
But that... kills you, right?
Yeah.
But...
Hirai-chan... Well actually, Shana, was it?
She agrees to do that, too?
I don't know about Shana.
None of the Flame Haze care about us at all.
Sakai, if you have to leave the city, I'll go with you.
I don't have anything to regret in this city or that house.
It'd feel better to leave.
All right, I'll go, too.
I can't let only Sakai shoulder the pain.
Thank you.
But can we come back once in a while?
What, is that how dedicated you are?
Don't you have people you want to see?
Huh?
No, never mind...
What do you mean "never mind"?
Forget it, all right.
It's not all right.
I said forget it.
Sakai-kun is serious.
Leaving the city is such a major decision, yet to be able to speak of it like that.
He argued it seriously with Yukari-chan, too.
I thought I was able to get close to Sakai-kun.
Why, Sakai-kun?
You're a lot further than before.
Just leave her!
She's been acting different since then.
Is it because she was thinking of destroying me?
It has to be. After all, I'm only a Mistes to a Flame Haze.
Yuji... I will...
I believe in you ~de arimasu.
Yo!
You said it bothered you, so we came to check it out.
If all of those decorations burn away, then we won't have any problems.
Yeah.
I think I'm thinking too much.
Sakai-kun.
Hey, who is that maid?
Hirai-chan's there, too.
Shana.
True, what the Mistes points out is good ~de arimasu.
Since we tend not to pay attention to that which has been already used ~de arimasukara.
We will keep an eye on it until it completely burns up ~de arimasu.
Looks like it's fine.
Yeah.
Caution.
Could this be...
H- Hey!
It's a spell insignia.
I didn't feel anything.
What is going on?
Maybe the fire was the activation for the spell.
It's the same as before!
Wilhelmina, something should be coming from above that spell insignia.
What is it?
Last time, it was an airship.
A Fuzetsu?
What the hell is that?
That's...
Could it be...
What is it?
Seirei-den.
It's the headquarters of Balle Masque ~de arimasu.
Arbiter of Reverse Reasoning!
Bel-Peol.
It's been a while, Flame of Heaven...
...And Manipulator of Objects.
Looks like even you guys couldn't see through the double-layered set up?
Wow, aren't Flame Haze thirsty for blood!
So that's the Balle Masque's...
Bel-Peol.
You surely understand the stress this set up would cause to the balance of the world.
If you think this is a big deal, the famous Flame of Heaven seems to have weakened a great deal.
The real big deal is about to begin, so sit back and enjoy the show.
Soon, this place will become a pool of existence.
A pool of existence?
You wouldn't!
You got it right.
What insanity.
This is strange. She isn't the type to show up to keep talking.
Reiji Maigo.
Careless.
And we knew they were after the Reiji Maigo.
Destruction.
Wilhelmina, no!
Metamorphosis.
You're as sharp as ever.
Oops, Mistes.
We have business with you.
Must destroy it before they get their hands on it!
Shana!
So she protected the Mistes?
What a peculiar one...
Shana...
Shana!
Why?
Yuji...
I don't know what to do, so...
Yuji is captured in the Seirei-den.
The Reiji Maigo brings about a crisis without precedent.
The time to choose comes to Shana, since the feelings have been entrusted to her.
Next time, Flickering Flame.